2012 Season Summary Ji Riders and results Graham Briggs 1st: Ixworth Town Centre Crits and Invitation Race, Colchester Tour Series, Brighouse Elite Crit, Stafford GP, Abergavenny Elite Crit, Sheffield Elite Crit, Cross Trax Road Race, BBM Road Race 1 2nd: Stockton Elite Crit, Colne Elite Crit, Duncan Wines Road Race, 3rd Peterborough Tour Series, BBM Road Race 2 Bernie Sulzberger 1st: Stoke Tour Series, East Midlands Regional Championships 2nd: Kirkcaldy Tour Series 3rd: Tour Doon Hame, Duncan Wines Road Race, Beverly Elite Crit Winner of Tour Series points competition Evan Oliphant 1st: Duncan Murray Wines Road Race 3rd: Vuelta Mexico Stage 3, Drummond Trophy, KOM winner at Beaumont Trophy Daniel Holloway 1st: Vuelta Mexico Stage 2nd: Tour Doon Hame, Peterborough Tour Series 4th Stockton Elite Crit Jamie Sparling 1st: BBM Road Race 1, 2nd: Tour de Beauce Stage 2, Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic, BBM Road Race 2, 3rd: Severn Bridge Road Race Russell Hampton 1st: Hillingdon GP, Colne Elite Crit 2nd: Tour de Beauce Stage 5 3rd: British Professional Road Race Championships Simon Holt 1st: Castle Combe Circuit Race 2nd: Hoghill Circuit Race, Loughborough Crit 3rd: BBM Road Race Jeroen Janssen 1st: IG Markets folding bike race 3rd: Loughborough Crit 10th: Ronde Van Gervan Tobyn Horton 1st: Stockton Crit 2nd: Vuelta Mexico stage 6 3rd: Vuelta Mexico stage 5 4th: Vuelta Mexico stage 1 5th: Sheffield Criterium Elite Series Liam Holohan 3rd: Tour de Beauce Stage 5, Cross Trax Road Race 5th: Brighouse Crit Matt Holmes 1st: Loughborough Crit 2nd: Under 23 British National Road Race Championships 3rd: CDNW Capernwray Brennan Townshend 8th: Fraddon Grand Prix 8th Paignton Regatta Circuit Races 40th overall in the Tour de Beauce, Canada The Sponsors Our gratitude goes out to the following sponsors, without whom this wouldn’t be possible. One set of race bikes, two sets of training bikes and countless other items shipped around the world. Thanks… Over 100,000 miles in two Superb team cars, which were put through all sorts of abuse. Thanks… Lots of local community events and enthusiastic local support. Thanks… Over 50 Dura Ace and Ultegra group sets and 132 wheels used. Thanks… Over 12,000 High5 sports nutrition gels and power sachets consumed. Thanks… Multiple warm winter kits and light summer race kits for 12 riders. Thanks… Over 50 lightweight carbon seatposts and stems. Thanks… Over 300 super hard wearing training tyres and super fast rolling race tyres. Thanks… 3 lightweight saddles per rider, molded to perfection. Thanks… The professional’s choice of tools for our team mechanic. Thanks… Gallons of grease, chain lube and bike cleaner. Thanks… Great casual clothing for before and after races. Thanks Dare 2b Protecting our eyes from the elements and our heads from the Tarmac. Thanks… 24 pairs of carbon-soled race shoes. Thanks… 12 super smart travel cases for that professional look. Thanks… 120 lightweight and super tough chains. In gold. Thanks… 480 super-efficient brake pads and sooo many cables. Thanks... Sleek, aluminium Airfighter pumps to pump up our tyres. Thanks… 12 magnetic therapy bands to aid with pain relief and injury recovery. Thanks… Light and strong track wheels for when we need that #bigpower. Thanks… Several hundred jars of calorific hazelnut spread. The perfect pre-race, post-race and sometimes even mid-race snack. Thanks… 0,a1.10 6 e , V N.... , frei1/44 The RALEIGH QYI _ • Niglingliaret WWW.TEAM- • n snrio Cleethorpcs 4 e No s =h am 0-- a Season summary Wow, what a year! 2012 was the year Team Raleigh-GAC stepped up massively, becoming a force to be reckoned with in Continental level racing. With over 20 winning performances and hours of TV coverage, cycling fans across the country have noticed the resurgence of Raleigh bikes and Raleigh’s racing team, recalling our 1970s and 80s heyday. Back in January 2012 our new signings like National Criterium Champion Graham Briggs, Aussie sprinter Bernie Sulzberger and promising new youngster Tour of Britain runner-up Matt Holmes had a lot to prove. After February's tough team training camp in a wintery Majorca, the Team's first notable result was a team win and a third place for Jamie Sparling in the Severn Bridge road race in Gloucestershire. This was followed by several other early season domestic podium places such as Simon Holt's first place at Castle Combe in Wiltshire and second place at Hog Hill in Essex. Whilst these domestic races are important, it wasn't until the UCI 2.2 Vuelta Mexico 8-day stage race in March that the team got to test themselves against the world’s best. Raleigh-GAC more than held their own in the high South American mountains with a win and a second place for Dan Holloway plus a brace of thirds for Tobyn Horton and Evan Oliphant. Back in the UK, Team Raleigh-GAC found themselves on the podium in a succession of more important Premier Calendar and UCI races such as Doon Hame in Scotland (second and third) and Rutland-Melton (second and winner of the King of the Mountains classification); the latter earning media column inches for Jamie Sparling's brave riding in atrocious weather conditions. More domestic results followed during May with wins for Graham Briggs in Ixworth, Suffolk, Russell Hampton in the ECCA Championships in Essex and at the Hillingdon GP in London, Matt Holmes in Loughborough and Jeroen Janssen in the IG Markets folding bike invitation race in London. On the back of these wins Raleigh-GAC entered the Tour Series brimming with confidence. The six team members competing for Raleigh in the 11 rounds of televised racing were up against some of the top continental riders including former Tour de France stage winner Magnus Backstedt and Olympic track hopeful Ed Clancy. Raleigh were never far away from the television cameras or the podium over those five weeks. Bernie Sulzberger won the sprinter’s yellow jersey, topping the Sprinter’s leaderboard for nine of the 11 rounds and winning the final stage in Stoke- on-Trent. Graham Briggs also won in round 9 and always seemed to be animating the race when the cameras were rolling, much to the joy of the team sponsors. The first Tour Series team win came on round 6 in Peterborough when Raleigh-GAC had the highest placed top ten finishers, helping them achieve fourth place team at the end of the Series. Once the confidence levels were up there was no stopping the boys. They showed no fear in mixing it with Elite teams, such as at the British National Championships, where Russell Hampton was narrowly beaten by two Team Sky boys, or the UCI 2.2 Tour de Beauce in Canada where Jamie Sparling, Russell Hampton and Liam Holohan were constantly in the breaks. Throughout the summer months the team were also dominant on the Elite Crit UK circuit, with Graham Briggs coming first at Brighouse, Stafford, Stockton, Abergavenny and Sheffield, which put him on top of the UK men’s rankings for the rest of the 2012 season. Wins also came for Russell Hampton in Colne, Tobyn Horton in Stockton, Evan Oliphant at the Duncan Murray Wines road race and Jamie Sparling at the BBM road race. The Tour of Britain was the culmination of the domestic season for Raleigh-GAC. The 8-stage televised race took Raleigh back into the living rooms of over 500,000 people every night. Raleigh-GAC animated the race with Graham Briggs, Bernie Sulzberger and Liam Holohan in exciting form. Graham’s memorable break came on Stage 6 where he was the only rider to keep pace with eventual race winner Jonathan Tiernan Locke on Caerphilly Mountain. As the domestic road season draws to a close our boys are keeping themselves fit by returning to the track and racing the Revolution Series, which is drawing big TV audiences and big crowds at Manchester Velodrome. The team management is also keeping busy signing big names for 2013, ensuring Team Raleigh continue making progress towards the top level of professional cycling. Keep an eye out for all the latest Team Raleigh news at www.teamraleigh.co.uk or via the team’s Facebook and Twitter sites. The stats 90 races attended 105 top tens 55 podium places 20 individual victories 2 team wins: Elite Circuit Championships, Tour Series Stage 6 (Peterborough) 2 KOM jersey victories: Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic (Jamie Sparling), Beaumont Trophy (Evan Oliphant) 2 Sprints jersey victories: Halfords Tour Series (Bernie Sulzberger), Jayco Bay Crits (Bernie Sulzberger) 60,000 miles driven with our sponsors’ branding 137,314 website hits (Jan-Oct 2012): 2,000 Twitter followers 3,000 Facebook fans Hours of UK TV coverage at the Tour Of Britain, the Tour Series and Sky Sports Thousands of column inches through print media coverage in Cycling Plus, Cycling Weekly, Pro Cycling and Bicycling Millions of website hits through content on Velo UK, Cycling News, British Cycling, RCUK and Bikeradar. Selected media coverage 1111111M11 Home I membership I Clubs I Maps I Coach., -.ink, Leadership I Go-Ride I GB -ream I shop I Campaigning I About Ills 1 media Centre I Partners I Contact TEAM RALEIGH Eve.100 1 Results I Ellul% I Cycle speedway I Cyrlo-Cross I NUB I Road I Track I Commuting I Sportive I Cycling!. Fun I Go-Pnle Racing I Team sky IZIE■ Team Raleigh confirm 2013 line-Lip and outline season's targets 1===2012 World Chant/W.4s Share fm I o1fla 1W Published 9 November 2012 Team Raleigh has confirmed its line up for2013 with We British Cycling Premier Calendar Seri., Elite Circuit Series and Hallord's Tour Series identified as the outfit's main goals.